627046 - User dosn't have any option to delete favicons cache

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mircea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9

clearing all history data and cache doesn't clears favicons.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's because they're stored as part of the bookmarks, so inside places.sqlite (see bug 253044 comment 4).

Comment 2

[Steve]

I have to say when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong, and it's rather annoying.
One site I visit often, has lost the favicon (it got changed by software upgrade) which was picked up instantly by FF.  But after changing the favicon back, FF retains the wrong one.  
And I've no way of forcing the change again.

I think at least on deleting the bookmark, it should forget the icon, but alas not.  Delete the bookmark, then pull the tab (with the correct favicon) onto the bookmark toolbar again, and FF shows the wrong icon on the bookmarks.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

icons are always expired based on the browser cache settings, by default they last 7 days.